Shelf for bedsteads.



A. KREJCI.

SHELF FOR BEDSTEADS. 1 APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 11, 1910.

57 90 Patented May 17, 1910.

WITNESSES.

INVENTOR.

TATEQ ANTON 'Knnror, or nnnvnnwonrn, Kansas.

SHELF FOR BEDSTEADS.

sateen.

m Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 17, 1910. Serial No. 538,417.

I Patented May it, lhtd.

adapted for use in barracks for displaying shoes and accouterments forinspection.

The device is designed for application to ordinary iron bedsteads, andcan be uickly attached to or removed from be steads without the use oftools, and when removed may be folded for storage or shipment.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, reference willnowbe made to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fi ure 1 represents a perspective view of the evice depending from therails of a bedstead. Fig. 2 shows the device detached from the bedsteadrails and folded ready for stora e or shipment.

A esi ates a shell. which consists preterabl o sheet-metal reinforced bya surroun ing wire 15. Said shelf is further reintorced by alongitudinal stra E and a pair of transverse straps C, w ch-latter aveupturned eyes 0.

B designates a plurality of supporting members, loosely secured at theirlower ends to eyes 0, so that they may told upon the shelf as shown inFig. 2.. The upper terminals h of the supporting members B are ofinverted EL-torm to detachably-engage the bedstead railslD.

G designates a pair of hooks loosely-ertending through the shelf andprovided at their lower threaded ends with nuts I and springs H, whichlatter are interposed between the former and the shelf to reliably ithold the upper ends of the hooks in engagement with the t-sha ed ends ofmembers B when the latter are iolded u on the shelf.

From the foregoing it w' be understood that l, have produced a device ofsimple durable and 'mexpensive construction, an one well ada ted for thepurpose intended, and while I ave shown the preferred form of my device,ll, of course, reserve the right to make such changes in theconstructlon and arrangement of parts as properly tall within the spiritand scope of the appended claim. a

Having thus described my invention,what I claim is: p A shelf forbed-steeds, comprismg, in com spaced transverse brace members a middlelongitudinal brace member adjom' said transverse brace members, upturneends formed on said transverse brace members, and provided with eyes,rods looped at their lower ends into said eyes, and termed at theirupper ends with overturned hooks adapted to engage over the side railsof a bed stead, and resilient means for clamping said rods against thebody of the shelt.

in testimony whereof ll afiir my signature, in the presence of twowitnesses.

ination, a sheet metal body,

